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Use LMS as codejail service for CMS #33538

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timmc-edx opened this issue Oct 18, 2023 · 0 comments
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Use LMS as codejail service for CMS #33538

timmc-edx opened this issue Oct 18, 2023 · 0 comments
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timmc-edx commented Oct 18, 2023

A/C:

As a step towards moving codejail to its own service and containerizing edxapp, we could move to an intermediate approach where the LMS runs codejail executions on behalf of CMS. This would provide the following benefits:

  • CMS could be containerized independently of LMS (no need to do both at the same time).
  • We would exercise the remote-codejail pathway and have an opportunity to discover and implement needed improvements before fully building out a separate codejail service.

This would entail adding a new view in LMS and configuring CMS to call it, as well as adding some authorization code.

Implementation details:

  • "Send this to a remote codejail" is already implemented in xmodule/capa/safe_exec/remote_exec.py
  • Ideally, we should keep the request/response format and the path the same so that we don't need to add yet another remote-codejail code path or use an intermediary (API Gateway?) to adjust the request.
  • The new view needs to require authorization, particularly since execution parameters like unsafely are in play. We can adjust remote_exec.py to add a token on behalf of the cms service user.
  • Regardless of authorization, LMS should ignore the unsafely request parameter unless a new Django setting (maybe CODEJAIL_SERVICE_ALLOW_UNSAFE) is set to True. To my knowledge, 2U does not allow unsandboxed codejail execution. Any deployer who wants to allow this will need to explicitly opt in to this dangerous setting.
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timmc-edx added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 9, 2024
This supports having an authenticated codejail service in general, but in
particular is to support the temporary use of the LMS as a codejail
service for the CMS: #33538

The new settings are all optional, and if not provided, the current
behavior does not change.
timmc-edx added a commit to edx/edx-arch-experiments that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2024
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